Black Hair Poems

Sharon
by Michael R. Burch, circa age 15

apologies to Byron

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Flamingo-minted, pink, pink cheeks,
dark hair streaked with a lisp of dawnlight;
I have seen your shadow creep
through eerie...

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Anxiety when there’s rain
For I know my hair will change
Reaching umbrella in vain
Onyx hair will bounce like spring

Putting in a lot of love
Uniquely owning my...

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A large black spider sat above my chair
as I slept and dreamt of my gentle lover's hand.
I woke to find my matted, tangled hair.

Among my...

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  Our ex-Pres is now laying it all bare
  At Joe Biden, he wants to spit and swear
     Pot’s...

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I thought to change one hair tonight
from white to black, atop my head. 
It seemed a try would be alright 
while lying here upon my...

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He rode a horse he got thrown off
Onto the ground his head hit first
In a pile of manure horses pie
On top of his head he...

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Written 29 November 2023
Love Jones Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Karen Jones

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Both time

&

Life is fleeting

Birth most certainly

Similataniously 

Also leads and ends in death

Like the winter climate in South Africa

Johannesburg specifically during Winter

As coming in the end...

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The Girl with Red Hair

Rain falls down from the sky, 
And down from the roofs, 
Into the soft ground,
And down to the streams, 
And down...

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Sally Sue was a big-haired gal from Kalamazoo
She lived in a forest of green with tiny slivers of blue.
Her thick hair was her nemesis, her...

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I love you funny Valentine at all cost
All your bad habits I laugh them off
How you wear your clothes a certain style
Boisterous of course with...

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her hair is all over the place
wackadoodle with curls
filling up the space between chairs
stiff burgundy and black locks
twirling around the bottom of our feet
Which would...

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When I went to bed last night, my hair was fairer,
Yet, when I looked at the mirror today, a stranger was there,
More grey than fair,...

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Author Dana Redricks
May 9, 2023

Our hair, so beautiful and unique, a treasure to cherish, it's yours to keep.
Black and gray, it shines and glimmers, its...

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When fairy tales were in fashion, before true love was rare,
A prince wooed a maid who was flaxen and fair.
He came every day and patiently...

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